One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM

What We’re Following

Obama’s Immigration Policy, All the Way to the Supreme Court

Justice Department officials said
this morning they would appeal a Monday-night ruling by the U.S. Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked a recent series of the president’s
executive orders on immigration, frustrating the White House’s efforts
to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Up next: the highest court of the United States. Texas and 25 other states have sued the administration over the proposed changes.

Senate demands answers from DHS on leaked docs that show administration defiance of amnesty ban

We covered the story
earlier this week of documents leaked from DHS showing the agency
looking to circumvent the injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas
that prohibited the federal government from implementing the president's
immigration executive orders. The agency prepared several options,
which included changing a regulation that would have allowed the
president to issue millions of green cards.That leak caught the attention of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who now want answers from DHS about what they're up to.

The group, led by Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called for DHS to explain the origin and status of internal memos publishedMonday.

"Granting employment authorization to illegal immigrants under the proposed scheme would accomplish, by different means, the de factolegalization of the population intended to be legalized by the enjoined DAPA program," Republicans charged.

The
agency's proposed regulations would change immigration regulations to
allow foreign workers in the U.S., potentially including illegal aliens,
to get a green card if an employer sponsors him or her, even if the
sponsorship has expired.

The
move by DHS would circumvent a program to provide amnesty for illegal
immigrants that was the subject of a lawsuit brought by 26 states this
year.

"We
want assurances that the administration will refrain from moving
forward with any such proposal that harms the integrity of our legal
immigration system and violates the law," the letter concluded.

There
has been no comment from the White House on the leaked memorandum,
which isn't surprising, given that they've been caught red-handed trying
to get around the ruling by a federal judge. Neither has there been
any response from the federal judge who issued the injunction. As a
rule, federal judges get angry when an administration tries to go behind
their backs or pull the wool over their eyes. I suspect that the judge
is going to want an explanation also.

No
doubt DHS will claim they were only examining "hypothetical" situations
and had no intention of carrying out a plan to give green cards to
millions of illegals. But given the track record of this administration
in obeying the basic laws of the land, it's doubtful that too many
Republicans will believe them.

In
a final push to ensure the “workplace rights” of illegal immigrants in
the U.S., the Obama administration continues to sign pacts with foreign
countries guaranteeing to protect their nationals from discrimination on
the job.

This month its Ecuador’s turn and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that
enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws, is sealing the
deal. In past years the Department of Labor (DOL) has executed similar
agreements with an assortment of countries, including Mexico, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and India.
In fact, under Obama’s first Labor Secretary, former California
Congresswoman and influential La Raza figure Hilda Solis, the DOL signed
a number of these “partnership agreements” vowing to protect illegal
aliens working in the U.S.

Solis even created a special
division at the DOL to enforce labor and wage laws in industries that
typically hire illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal
immigration authorities. Protecting the workplace rights of “vulnerable”
migrants was a big priority at the agency under her leadership. During a
ceremony to celebrate pacts with several foreign countries Solis said
that “migrant workers make important contributions to our economy,” and
that the deals will “help ensure these workers are aware of the right to
safe workplaces and to receive full payment of the wages owed to them
under the laws of the United States.”

"The decades-long stagnation of wages for US workers and the destruction of decent-paying jobs were reflected in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
According to the study, the mortality rate of white, middle-aged
working-class Americans has dramatically increased since 1999,
translating into nearly 100,000 more deaths than if it had remained flat
over this period. This increase is largely due to drug overdoses,
alcohol abuse and suicides, symptomatic of the social misery and
distress that pervades the lives of a growing share of American
workers."

“Positive” US jobs report belied by mass layoffs

By Josh Varlin 7 November 2015

The
US economy added 271,000 jobs in October, according to the latest jobs
report by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Media
commentators hailed the jobs figure, which was higher than economists’
predictions of about 180,000 jobs, as “stellar,” “off the charts” and
“sizzling.” Unemployment fell to 5 percent, the lowest level since April
2008.

October’s report comes following lackluster figures in September and August,
in which the US economy added only 137,000 and 153,000 jobs,
respectively. President Barack Obama praised the jobs report in a speech
Friday, declaring “Our businesses created 268,000 new jobs last month.
They’ve created 13.5 million new jobs over the past 68 straight
months—the longest streak on record.”

A
recent wave of mass layoff announcements, however, belies the official
triumphalism by the media and political establishment. The Kraft Heinz
Company announced on November 4 that it was closing 7 factories across
the country, thereby axing 2,600 jobs over the next two years, in
addition to 2,500 jobs that were cut in August. Oscar Mayer, a
subsidiary of Kraft Heinz, will lose its Madison, Wisconsin plant in the
layoffs, affecting 1,200 workers in a medium-sized city. The layoffs
are the direct result of the Merger of Kraft and Heinz announced in
March.

GE
Transportation announced 1,500 layoffs at its Erie, Pennsylvania
locomotive production facility on November 6, pointing to low locomotive
demand and falling commodity prices. The layoffs will affect mostly
skilled workers. Chevron announced layoffs
totaling between 6,000 and 7,000 jobs, along with a “similar” number of
contract workers, on October 30. This is in addition to plans to lay
off 1,500 workers and 600 contractors announced in July.

On
Wednesday, Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son announced that layoffs at the
company would be “in the thousands.” Sprint plans to cut spending by $2
billion a year and already cut 3,700 jobs at the end of 2014 and
beginning of 2015.

The
recently announced mergers of pharmaceutical giants Allergan and
Pfizer, pharmacy chains Walgreens and Rite Aid, and health insurers
Cigna and Anthem will likely entail job losses down the line as well.
These mergers and acquisitions, which result in massive payoffs to Wall
Street investors and corporate investments, create the conditions for
slashing workers’ wages and benefits, the closure of workplaces and mass
layoffs.

Wal-Mart
announced last month that its sales for the year would be flat and that
earnings per share would decrease next year. Target, meanwhile,
announced that it was closing 13 of its stores nationwide, in a move
that will likely spell unemployment for most of the workers at the
affected locations.

The poor sales figures for
Wal-Mart and Target express the worsening financial position of working
people amid the decades-long stagnation of wages and continued mass
joblessness despite the headline unemployment figure.

Wall
Street reacted to the jobs report with a mild selloff early in the day,
reflecting fears that if the real economy or employment situation
improved, the Federal Reserve would
be more likely to raise interest rates in December. Fed Chairwoman
Janet Yellen said on Wednesday, before the jobs report, that a hike in
the key interest rate that month is a “live possibility.”

Despite
the better-than-expected jobs figures, the labor force participation
rate, an important indicator of the actual job market, remained at its
38-year low of 62.4 percent. In other words, a whopping 37.6 percent of
the population is neither employed nor actively seeking work, with many
having simply given up on the prospect of finding a decent job.

The
latest report comes in the context of a global economic slowdown and
other figures pointing to deteriorating economic conditions in the
United States. The US economy grew at a mere 1.5 percent annualized rate
in the third fiscal quarter of 2015 after a 3.9 percent rate in the
second quarter. The World Bank has projected that American GDP will grow
2.7 percent this year, but this has already been revised down from a
January estimate of 3.2 percent.

When broken down by
sector, the jobs report reveals much more than the headlines suggest.
Manufacturing employment was unchanged in October at 12.3 million
workers, compared to over 13 million before the financial crisis and
recession. In other words, despite the “recovery,” relatively
high-paying manufacturing jobs have failed to reach even pre-recession
levels, let alone keep pace with population growth.

The
positions added in October were overwhelmingly in the service industry,
which is dominated by low-wage employment. The sector that hired the
most workers was professional and business services, which added 78,000
jobs, followed by health care, which added 44,900, retail, which added
43,800 and leisure and hospitality, which added 41,000 jobs.

The
professional and business services sector includes technical,
management, administrative, support and waste management services,
including custodial, clerical and security staff. Nearly one third of
the jobs added in this sector were in temp agencies, which added 24,500
jobs.

The next-largest sector was health care, which
includes home health aides in nursing homes, whose median hourly salary
was $10.74 in 2014. The retail and leisure and hospitality sectors are
notorious for their low wages. Cashiers at grocery stores had a median
wage of $10.31 in 2014.

Leisure and hospitality workers
made still less, with the median wage of nonsupervisory employees a
mere $12.51 per hour and the median workweek only 25 hours. Fast-food
cooks earned a median wage of only $9.13 per hour in 2014.

These
industry sectors, staffed by underemployed and underpaid workers,
represent the “new normal” of the American economy. The recession and
subsequent “recovery” resulted in millions of formerly well-paying jobs
being axed and replaced with poverty-wage employment. A 2014 report by
the National Employment Law Project notes that while US businesses have
added 1.85 million low-wage jobs over the past six years, they had
eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage and high-wage jobs.

The decades-long stagnation of wages for US workers and the destruction of decent-paying jobs were reflected in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
According to the study, the mortality rate of white, middle-aged
working-class Americans has dramatically increased since 1999,
translating into nearly 100,000 more deaths than if it had remained flat
over this period. This increase is largely due to drug overdoses,
alcohol abuse and suicides, symptomatic of the social misery and
distress that pervades the lives of a growing share of American workers.

Immigration Will be Our Downfall if We Don’t Change By Stan Gudmundson

The Winona (MN) Post, November 4, 2015
. . .
We
have not come to grips with reality. Both Europe and the United States
are now being invaded. It is a creeping invasion whose long-term impact
is every bit as threatening as a foreign army overrunning us.

Europe
continues to bring in Muslims who will not assimilate. Consequently,
they are signing a death warrant for European civilization. And so are
we with an immigrant population far, far too large to assimilate.

Unless
Europeans stop bringing in Muslims and unless they insist that Muslims
already in Europe assimilate, Europe’s fall will be inevitable. It will
be violent and bloody. Eventually there will be millions of additional
refugees fleeing a continent taken over by the laws of Sharia and a
primitive ideology almost 1,400 years old.

European
countries must slam the door shut on more Muslim immigration. And it has
to remain closed until the Muslim world can peacefully get along not
only with us but also with each other.

We too have to
slam the door shut on illegal immigration and significantly reduce legal
immigration here in the United States. Moreover, we require the right
to decide who we will take in as citizens.

In
response the surge of Central Americans sneaking into Texas in the
summer of 2014, the Obama administration launched an ad campaign in the
sending countries earlier this year to stem the flow. The radio and TV
spots assert that "there are no permits for the people trying to cross
the border without papers" and promise "the immediate deportation of
those trying to cross the border without documents."

None of it is true. There are permits for illegal-alien minors and
families. Formally known as Notices to Appear but known colloquially in
Spanish as permisos, they require the aliens to present themselves to
immigration authorities by a certain date, until which they have
temporary legal status. That gives them time enough to travel to join
their relatives and disappear into the existing illegal population. And
disappear they do, since, despite the tough promises, virtually none of
them are deported, immediately or otherwise.

So it should come as no surprise to read today's AP report, which begins this way:

Obama set to defy federal court on amnesty

Once again, President Obama is looking to defy Congress in implementing its immigration reform proposals.This time, his administration is looking to also defy a federal court to achieve it.

A
judge sitting on the 5th Circuit in Texas issued an injunction last
June against the administration's regulatory plans to legalize millions
of aliens in the U.S. illegally. The injunction was upheld by a federal
appeals court in Louisiana, and the president's plan is now stalled
while the administration works through the federal court system.Except
now there are plans afoot to change the regulations pertaining to green
cards that would accomplish almost everything the president can't get
from Congress or the courts. A leaked memo from DHS outlines four plans
the administration is considering.Ian Smith of the Immigration Reform Law Institute:

The
internal memo reveals four options of varying expansiveness, with
option 1 providing EADs to “all individuals living in the United
States”, including illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, and H-1B
guest-workers, while option 4 provides EADsonly to those on
certain unexpired non-immigrant visas. Giving EADs to any of the covered
individuals, however, is in direct violation of Congress’s Immigration
& Nationality Act and works to dramatically subvert our carefully
wrought visa system. As
mentioned, the first plan the memo discusses basically entails giving
EADs to anyone physically present in the country who until now has been
prohibited from getting one. A major positive to this option, the memo
reads, is that it would “address the needs of some of the intended deferred
action population.” Although DHS doesn’t say it expressly, included
here would be those 4.3 million people covered by the president’s DAPA
and Expanded DACA programs whose benefits were supposed to have been
halted in the Hanen decision. On top of working around the Hanen
injunction, this DHS plan would also dole out unrestricted EADs to those
on temporary non-immigrant visas, such as H-1B-holders (their work
authorizations being tied to their employers) and another 5 to 6
million illegal aliens thus far not covered by any of the President’s
deferred action amnesty programs. By claiming absolute authority to
grant work authorization to any alien, regardless of status, DHS is in
effect claiming it can unilaterally de-couple the 1986 IRCA work
authorization statutes from the main body of U.S. visa law. While DHS
must still observe the statutory requirements for issuing visas, the
emerging doctrine concedes, the administration now claims unprecedented
discretionary power to permit anyone inside our borders to work.

Get a load of what the DHS bureaucrats think about illegals working in the U.S.:

The
anonymous DHS policymakers state that a positive for this option is
that it “could cover a greater number of individuals.” In a strikingly
conclusory bit of bureaucratese, they state that because illegal aliens
working in the country “have already had the US labor market tested” it
has been “demonstrat[ed] that their future employment won’t adversely
affect US workers.” The labor market, in other words, has already been
stress-tested through decades of foreign-labor dumping and the American
working-class, which disproportionately includes minorities, working
mothers, the elderly, and students, is doing just fine. Apparently, the
fact that 66 million Americans and legal aliens are currently unemployed or out of the job-market was not a discussion point at the DHS “Retreat.”

Smith
concludes: "Bottom line: The memo foreshadows more tactical offensives
in a giant administrative amnesty for all 12 million illegal aliens
who’ve broken our immigration laws (and many other laws) that will emerge before the next inaugural in January 2016."I'm
not sure that judge in Texas will let the administration get away with
this. When the government began handing out green cards anyway in
defiance of the injunction, the judge, Andrew Hanen, threatened to
arrest the lot of them for contempt. He forced the government to recall
the green cards immediately. There will be no circumventing the law in
his court.But
the plans may be untouchable because they don't directly stem from the
series of executive orders currently being adjudicated. Of course, any
plan to blanket the country in work permits for illegals will be
challenged in court. But eventually, the administration may find a
friendly judge who gives it the go-ahead.

Once again, President Obama is looking to defy Congress in implementing its immigration reform proposals.This time, his administration is looking to also defy a federal court to achieve it.A
judge sitting on the 5th Circuit in Texas issued an injunction last
June against the administration's regulatory plans to legalize millions
of aliens in the U.S. illegally. The injunction was upheld by a federal
appeals court in Louisiana, and the president's plan is now stalled
while the administration works through the federal court system.Except
now there are plans afoot to change the regulations pertaining to green
cards that would accomplish almost everything the president can't get
from Congress or the courts. A leaked memo from DHS outlines four plans
the administration is considering.Ian Smith of the Immigration Reform Law Institute:

The
internal memo reveals four options of varying expansiveness, with
option 1 providing EADs to “all individuals living in the United
States”, including illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, and H-1B
guest-workers, while option 4 provides EADsonly to those on
certain unexpired non-immigrant visas. Giving EADs to any of the covered
individuals, however, is in direct violation of Congress’s Immigration
& Nationality Act and works to dramatically subvert our carefully
wrought visa system. As
mentioned, the first plan the memo discusses basically entails giving
EADs to anyone physically present in the country who until now has been
prohibited from getting one. A major positive to this option, the memo
reads, is that it would “address the needs of some of the intended deferred
action population.” Although DHS doesn’t say it expressly, included
here would be those 4.3 million people covered by the president’s DAPA
and Expanded DACA programs whose benefits were supposed to have been
halted in the Hanen decision. On top of working around the Hanen
injunction, this DHS plan would also dole out unrestricted EADs to those
on temporary non-immigrant visas, such as H-1B-holders (their work
authorizations being tied to their employers) and another 5 to 6
million illegal aliens thus far not covered by any of the President’s
deferred action amnesty programs. By claiming absolute authority to
grant work authorization to any alien, regardless of status, DHS is in
effect claiming it can unilaterally de-couple the 1986 IRCA work
authorization statutes from the main body of U.S. visa law. While DHS
must still observe the statutory requirements for issuing visas, the
emerging doctrine concedes, the administration now claims unprecedented
discretionary power to permit anyone inside our borders to work.

Get a load of what the DHS bureaucrats think about illegals working in the U.S.:

The
anonymous DHS policymakers state that a positive for this option is
that it “could cover a greater number of individuals.” In a strikingly
conclusory bit of bureaucratese, they state that because illegal aliens
working in the country “have already had the US labor market tested” it
has been “demonstrat[ed] that their future employment won’t adversely
affect US workers.” The labor market, in other words, has already been
stress-tested through decades of foreign-labor dumping and the American
working-class, which disproportionately includes minorities, working
mothers, the elderly, and students, is doing just fine. Apparently, the
fact that 66 million Americans and legal aliens are currently unemployed or out of the job-market was not a discussion point at the DHS “Retreat.”

Smith
concludes: "Bottom line: The memo foreshadows more tactical offensives
in a giant administrative amnesty for all 12 million illegal aliens
who’ve broken our immigration laws (and many other laws) that will emerge before the next inaugural in January 2016."I'm
not sure that judge in Texas will let the administration get away with
this. When the government began handing out green cards anyway in
defiance of the injunction, the judge, Andrew Hanen, threatened to
arrest the lot of them for contempt. He forced the government to recall
the green cards immediately. There will be no circumventing the law in
his court.But
the plans may be untouchable because they don't directly stem from the
series of executive orders currently being adjudicated. Of course, any
plan to blanket the country in work permits for illegals will be
challenged in court. But eventually, the administration may find a
friendly judge who gives it the go-ahead.

ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, CALIFORNIA HANDS ILLEGALS MORE THAN $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES. COUNTIES SUCH AS MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, HAND OUT EVEN MORE. THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HANDS ILLEGALS MORE THAN A BILLION FOR THE LA RAZA-DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FOR WELFARE PROGRAM.

ON TOP OF THESE FIGURES, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HOSPITALS ARE FORCED TO PROVIDE $1.5 BILLION IN "FREE" HEALTHCARE. NO LEGAL VOTED TO BE LOOTED BY MEXICO.

Description: California's undocumented population makes
up a sizable share of California residents without health insurance.
Half would likely qualify for full Medi-Cal benefits should coverage be
extended. PPIC researchers Iwunze Ugo and Shannon McConville will
provide a look at new estimates of the size and income levels of this
population across California regions.

Stopping the Flow of Illegal Immigrants

National Review Online, November 13, 2015

Estimates from the Center for Migration Studies and the Pew Research Center show that, of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, approximately 2.5 million arrived after Barack Obama’s inauguration. Yet the overall number of illegal immigrants in the country has remained fairly static, meaning that illegal immigrants have been coming and going in about equal numbers. Why? Because, contrary to much political rhetoric, many illegal immigrants are not here to stay, and so are very sensitive to incentives: When the prospect of profitable work outweighs the risk of falling afoul of law enforcement, they come; when it doesn’t, they leave.
. . .
It is crucial, though, that we end the flow of illegal immigrants across our borders before dealing with those already here — otherwise, an amnesty will inevitably only draw the next population of illegal immigrants. To that end, a Republican administration should, among other things, seek to erect physical barriers along the southern border, end catch-and-release policies, and work with Congress to defund sanctuary cities.